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Re:Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over ... by ineedasername on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:37PM (#16625562)
Well, yes & no: Facebook doesn't sell the data itself, but they do give it away when a user agrees when using an app or service mediated by Facebook. That seems to be what happened here: Users took a personality survey, and their data along with the data of their friends made its way to CA.
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Re:Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over ... by nerfhammer on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:11PM (#16625729)
The "data" that you could get was just like what people listed in their profile page under "Interests" and things like that though. Which maybe tells you something, but not quite like home address and a list of political preferences
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Re:Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over ... by Cheezmeister on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:23AM (#16627241)
No, those things are in a different section of your Facebook profile.
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Re:Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over ... by nerfhammer on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:25PM (#16632239)
There was never a time that home address was available from the friend graph api.
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